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Emile

Boy's name · #2098 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Popularity over time

Emile holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#2098 in 2025). About 8,600 boys have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 4 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#30 in Belgium (2025) · #72 in Canada (2025) · #106 in France (2025) · #246 in Switzerland (2025) · #976 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,040 in Netherlands (2025) · #2,300 in Italy (2024) · #2,338 in Austria (2025) · #1,140 in Sweden (2024) · #2,233 in Ecuador (2024) · #660 in Ireland (2023) · #707 in Scotland (2016) and 1 more.

Famous Emiles

• Émile Zola — French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
• Émile Durkheim — French sociologist (1858–1917)
• Emile Verhaeren — Belgian poet (1855–1916)
• Émile Borel — French mathematician (1871–1956)
• Émile Loubet — President of France from 1899 to 1906 (1838–1929)
• Emile Hirsch — American actor (born 1985)
• Emile Heskey — English footballer (born 1978)
• Emile Smith Rowe — English footballer (born 2000)
• Emile Berliner — German-born American inventor (1851–1929)
• Émile Lahoud — President of Lebanon from 1998 to 2007 (born 1936)

In stories & tradition

• Émile Blondet^fr — Honoré de Balzac character
• Emile Leopold Locque^it — For Your Eyes Only (film)
• Émile — Emile, or On Education (book)

What Emiles become

Among 2,948 notable people named Emile:

Lawyers & judges appear 1.91× more often than among typical names — e.g. Émile Acollas, French jurist (1826–1891).

Similar names: Emil · Valentine · Emmitt · Nile · Sylvester · Lyle

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